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Many of the writers here at Bridging the Gap have written about using transferable skills to transition into a Business Analysis career. Laura Brandenburg’s theme is assisting people in starting and transitioning to Business Analysis. In her article, 5 Steps to Becoming a Business Analyst, Step Two is to identify transferable skills. In Building Critical Stakeholder [...]
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I have been asked often in my career if you can be a Business Analyst if you do not have domain or industry knowledge. Sometimes the question comes worded differently: Can a BA move to an industry that they have not worked in before? I would like to move to a BA career and I [...]
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Reader’s Question: I have been working in the medical and spa industry for over 10 years. It seems every position I have involves some BA type duties from rewriting policy and procedure manuals to doing efficiency studies. I need to find a mentor to assist me in turning all this random experience into a BA [...]
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We have two readers ask similar questions of our Help A BA! staff concerning extracting business rules from legacy systems; so let’s help them both out. Reader 1: As rules are mostly hardcoded and code walkthrough is too time consuming in mainframe systems, what is the best way to extract business rules from legacy systems [...]
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Just by nature of our work and our title “Business Analyst,” quite often the BA is put in a situation where they must influence others without being given the proper authority to do so. The PM is given the “Manager” title; everybody knows they are in charge. The BA is given the “Analyst” title which [...]
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Reader’s question: I need some help in documenting my BA experience for the CBAP requirements, i.e. total 7500 hrs exp, 900 hrs exp. in any 4 knowledge areas of the BABOK, the 21 PD hours and 2 references…how do I prepare this document for applying for the exam? Aaron’s response: Fortunately for those interested in [...]
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Reader’s question: Can you share your list of free webinars that offer PDs? Aaron’s reply: As any good Business Analyst would do, let’s make sure we are talking about the same thing. PDs is the abbreviation for Professional Development hours, of which you need 21 to qualify to sit for the CCBATM or CBAP® exam. [...]
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Reader’s question: “Are the two certifications (CABA and CSBA) administrated by QAI Global Institute comparable to the two certifications (CCBATM and CBAP®) administrated by the IIBA®?” Aaron’s reply: I was actually asked about these QAI certifications a couple months ago in LinkedIn. Prior to that, I had never heard of the QAI, CABA or CSBA. [...]
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Reader Question: I have a background as a software engineer, but have been doing various business analysis activities throughout my career, as a team leader and project manager. This is my first role with the actual BA title. My company is in the health industry, specifically medical imaging (radiology). We have a lot of difficulty [...]
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Reader question: My company has recently created Business Analysis Unit with me as junior business analyst and my supervisor as Senior Business Analyst. However, he left the company even before setting up project plans. As I am not really familiar with the organisation yet, I am wondering where can I get some project ideas from? [...]
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